Ige Signs Bill Legalizing Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in Hawaii
Gov. David Ige has signed a bill establishing a system of medical marijuana dispensaries in Hawaii. Medical marijuana has been legal in Hawaii for the past 15 years but patients haven’t had anywhere to...
View ArticlePakalolo and Profits: Hawaii’s Emerging Medical Marijuana Industry
Michael Irish is a longtime Oahu businessman best known as CEO of Diamond Head Seafood Wholesale and Keoki’s Lau Lau. But next year, he may be involved in a different industry — growing marijuana and...
View ArticleMedical Marijuana: Department of Health Takes Center Stage
Hawaii’s newly approved medical marijuana dispensary program is expected to fuel a multi-million-dollar industry starting next year. But a lot remains to be decided about program rules and how the...
View ArticlePod Squad: The Legal Issues of Hawaii’s Medi-Pot Industry
This week’s annual conference of the Hawaii State Bar Association includes a day-long seminar on medical marijuana and how the process to get dispensaries in place is progressing. State Rep. Della Au...
View ArticleMeet The New Head of Hawaii’s Medical Marijuana Dispensary Program
Margaret “Peggy” Leong has spent the last eight and a half years working as a parish administrator at St. John Vianney Parish in Kailua. But for the past two weeks, Leong has had a very different job:...
View ArticleHawaii Medical Marijuana Growers Could Save Millions By Using Greenhouses
As the Hawaii Department of Health finalizes interim rules for the state’s new medical marijuana dispensary program, one definition could mean the difference of millions of dollars for entrepreneurs...
View ArticleInterim Medical Marijuana Rules Posted
The Hawaii Department of Health has posted the interim administrative rules for the medical marijuana dispensary licensing program on its website. “The interim rules were written first and foremost to...
View ArticleWoody Harrelson Wants To Grow Weed In Hawaii
Two-time Academy Award winner and actor Woody Harrelson is among 59 applicants for licenses to cultivate and sell medical cannabis in Hawaii. The Aloha State has allowed patients to grow their own...
View ArticleState To Release Names of Panelists Awarding Medical Marijuana Licenses
Responding to pressure from the news media and the public, the Hawaii Department of Health has agreed to release the names of the people who are on a review panel for applications to grow and sell...
View ArticleHawaii Cuts Wait Time For Medical Marijuana Cards
The state Health Department says it has reduced how long it takes to process patients’ applications for medical marijuana from up to eight weeks to no more than five business days. House Rep. Della Au...
View ArticleWhat’s Up With Panel To Award Medical Pot Dispensary Licenses?
With less than six weeks to go before the state is scheduled to announce the winners of licenses to grow and sell medical marijuana, the Department of Health still hasn’t chosen the members of a panel...
View ArticleHere’s Who Will Choose Hawaii’s Medical Marijuana Distributors
The state Department of Health has announced the five members of a committee that will review applications to grow and sell medical marijuana in Hawaii. They include University of Hawaii Manoa...
View ArticleHawaii May Delay Announcement Of Medical Marijuana Licensees
The state Department of Health is supposed to announce the recipients of eight licenses to grow and sell medical marijuana on April 15, but the agency issued a press release Friday saying that the...
View ArticleMedical Marijuana Dispensary Announcement Delayed Until April 29
Despite a statutory deadline of April 15, the state Department of Health will wait until April 29 to announce the eight companies that will receive licenses to grow and sell medical marijuana. The...
View ArticleKauai Medical Marijuana Licensee Accused of Stealing $375K
A Hawaii businessman selected Friday to run medical marijuana dispensaries on Kauai is being sued in civil court for allegedly stealing more than $375,000 from a business partner last October. On...
View ArticleHawaii Nurses May Soon Be Able To Certify Medical Marijuana Patients
Hawaii lawmakers approved a bill Tuesday that reforms many aspects of the state’s medical marijuana dispensary law but left enough on the table that medical marijuana advocates are likely to be back at...
View ArticleCheech & Chong: Trump Is An ‘Aptitude Test’ For Voters
Comedians Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, on a visit to Honolulu on a national tour, sat with Civil Beat for a conversation about the dumbfounding state of U.S. politics and the slow progress towards...
View ArticleMedical Marijuana Scores Released
The Hawaii Department of Health has released the application scores for the eight companies who were awarded licenses to grow and sell medical marijuana. All eight of the selected companies have paid...
View ArticleHawaii Cuts Wait Time For Medical Marijuana Cards
The state Health Department says it has reduced how long it takes to process patients’ applications for medical marijuana from up to eight weeks to no more than five business days. House Rep. Della Au...
View ArticleWhat’s Up With Panel To Award Medical Pot Dispensary Licenses?
With less than six weeks to go before the state is scheduled to announce the winners of licenses to grow and sell medical marijuana, the Department of Health still hasn’t chosen the members of a panel...
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